OK retired DUers - how did you handle sexual harassment back in the day

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79. I quit one summer job.

I was still in college and took a summer job working at a daycare center. On the third day, the owner grabbed me in the laundry room. That was it; I was done. But it wasn't a career, just a low-paying job. It's a harder decision when it's a job you need or really want.

Another time I was a server at a strip club. I had a tray full of draft beers, and I was delivering them up on some bleacher-type seating while a feature performer was onstage. As I was climbing up the steps, I felt some guy pinch my butt. My hands were full, so I kicked him and kept walking. Afterwards, I realized it was a regular customer who was normally nice, just drunk. I apologized for kicking him, and he said no, I was right to kick him, and that he hadn't pinched me. He'd bitten me.

In jobs that I cared about, I'm lucky to have never been sexually harassed.